Early Sunday morning, a rainy city centre. A ten-year-old-boy steps out in front of traffic. He is dazed, confused and barefoot. He is covered in blood. It's not his. Detective Maddie Ives is called out and finds the boy backed up against a shop front. He can't or won't speak. His face is a mask of shock and his whole body is tense. He's ready to run again. He can't tell her why. Who scared this boy out of his wits? Then a man is found brutally murdered,...

Eighteen months ago, a young boy cowers downstairs as the police try to stop his father from brutally assaulting his mother. Now that man and three other domestic abusers have banded together to get revenge on the people they blame for taking their families away. A ring of brutal men working together against the police. And they have someone on the inside. Can Detective Maddie Ives keep their families safe?.

Detective Maddie Ives faces the most twisted serial killer of her career. He?s one step ahead of them. He?s watching their every move. And his next target is one of their own. You might know who the killer is, but can you work out why? The body count is rising and each murder is more unpredictable than the last. Detective Maddie Ives races against time to work out the killer?s real motive. Full of twists and turns until the fiendish climax.